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About Here Comes the Garbage Barge!

This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story that is sure to make you say, “Pee-yew!” Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can’t produce unlimited trash without consequences.

Before everyone recycled . . .

There was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it.

What did they do?

Enter the Garbage Barge!

Amazing art built out of junk, toys, and found objects by Red Nose Studio makes this the perfect book for Earth Day or any day, and photos on the back side of the jacket show how the art was created.

Here Comes the Garbage Barge was a New York Times Best Illustrated book of 2010, a Huffington Post Best Picture Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. The Washington Post said, “Cautionary? Yes. Hilarious? You betcha!” and the New York Times Book Review raved, “[A] glorious visual treat.”

Awards

Bulletin Blue Ribbon BookWINNER 2010

NCSS/CBC Notable Children’s Trade Books in the Field of Social StudiesWINNER

New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and SharingWINNER

New York Times Best Illustrated BookWINNER 2010

Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice AwardWINNER

School Library Journal Best Book of the YearWINNER 2010

Indiana Young Hoosier AwardNOMINEE

Praise

Starred Review, School Library Journal, January 2010: “This title should be a part of every elementary school ecology unit.”

Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, January 11, 2010: “Funky in every sense of the word.”

Review, Chicago Sun-Times, April 18, 2010: “As compelling as the story is, so are the unusual illustrations.”

About Jonah Winter

Jonah Winter is the author of many award-winning books about baseball figures, including Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates; You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!; and You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! His other stellar titles include Here Comes… More about Jonah Winter